Job description
- Extensive experience in account management, sales, management consulting, or roles with similarly broad scope · Bachelor degree or equivalent, preferably in a business-related subject such as Business Administration, Business Engineering or Business Information · Strong business acumen, as well as communication and negotiation skills · Proven quantitative analytical capability and project management skills in addition to being customer focused, excellent attention to detail and able to effectively prioritize and multi-task · Successful candidates will have proven experience in developing original ideas, approaches, and solutions to typical, unusual, or difficult situations in a competitive and ever changing business climate · Familiarity with Excel and knowledge of databases or CRM tools (e.g. Salesforce)
The successful Account Manager will be comfortable navigating ambiguity and operating in a start-up environment. You will have experience developing relationships across a diverse customer base, drive commercial growth for the business and work effectively with functional areas such as Business, Operations, Procurement, Finance, and IT; and have a proven track record of meeting and exceeding program goals and revenue targets.
This role can be based in London or Manchester, and involves possible moderate travel (maximum 25%).
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Own strategy and commercial growth of our customers
- Drive revenue, adoption, and market segment share for our product
- Earn trust of customers (shippers) and recommend product solutions that fit their business needs, meeting and exceeding targets for customer revenue and/or feature adoption
- Measure performance, articulate root-cause analysis, and link to specific improvement areas
- Relay market segment needs and requirements back to internal Amazon teams
- Analyse current purchasing processes and evaluate opportunities for solutions to improve end user experiences, reduce costs, and accelerate organization performance.
- Drive and accelerate spend adoption through advising customers on best practices for using our product.
- Assess program risks, anticipate challenges, and provide escalation management when necessary
London, GBR
- Demonstrated experience in helping to develop others on your team and scaling best practices · Entrepreneurial background with proven ability to deal with ambiguity, pivot quickly, adapt to new processes and run fast.
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Amazon UK Services Ltd.
https://www.aboutamazon.com/
Seattle, United States
Andrew Jassy
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Internet & Web Services
1994